“…Infections with P. acnes such as endocarditis, meningitis, brain abscess, septic arthritis, osteomyelitis and implantrelated infections have been described [11,13,[18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29]. At the shoulder, several studies reported P. acnes infections, most of them with the typical symptoms of infection such as wound erythema, purulent drainage or chronic sinus tracts as well as systemic symptoms such as fever and elevated Creactive protein levels [1,2,6,8].…”